The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

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.