Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."