It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

We should respect all people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.