"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

"Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted."

"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies."