Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .

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