I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Work is love made visible.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.