The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

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.

You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.

You have to do something first and let God bless

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.