you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.