Every soul is a battlefield.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if you go in there and have doubt in your mind that you're afraid to get hit, forget it.

It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.