You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.