I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

Those who own much have much to fear.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?