Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Look the world straight in the eye.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.