Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.