Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.