“The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.” 

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.” 

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” 

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 

He who lives outside the law is a slave. The free man is the man who lives within the law, whether that law be the physical or the divine

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. 

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.

If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life.

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.