“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

To be alive-is Power.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Till I loved I never lived.

The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

I have an appetite for silence.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.