From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.