For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.