The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.