The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.

Ultimately not one amongst us Will ever be denied that, The glimmer of a chance to shine.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Diligence includes long – suffering

You should employ your little grey cells.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.