"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."