Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:.