To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

MUSIC is, can, and will.

To every difficulty, God’s grace abounds.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Being president looks like the worst job in the world.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.