“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.”

“We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

“Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.”

“Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.”

“The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

“Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.”