“Darkness is dawn not yet born.”

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Don’t be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God’s altitude for your life.

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.

My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it