Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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.

Never outgrow your imagination.

Science can only state what is, not what should be.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.