Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.