“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”

“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.”

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”