Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

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

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.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.