Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.