Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.