Without peace, we cannot be creative.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain