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

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

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

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

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

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!