Gabriela Mistral

"Nature is the greatest teacher of all."

"Art is the soul made visible."

"Science reveals the mysteries of creation."

"Music is the universal language of humanity."

"Faith is the strength of the soul."

"Leadership is service to others."

"Work is love made visible."

"Dreams are the blueprint of reality."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"I am my own path."

"Many things we need to learn are taught us by the great anxiety and sorrow."

"Sweetness carried to excess prevents us from being wholesome."

"We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but the worst one is abandoning the children."

"I want the company of beings that exalt my sense of the good, that make me enter gladly into virtue."

"At sixty years old, I understood that my heart had never really aged."

"The saddest thing is not to die, but to live without purpose."

"I love everything that flows: water, wind, words, and time."

"Teaching is one of the few noble professions of the world."

"A mother's heart is always a school."

"Beauty is the only thing that doesn't answer to the majority."

"I give you my hand, but only my hand - the rest belongs to my work."

"The sap of all goodness rises from within to the outer world."

"Through sorrow, the human spirit grows."

"I plant roses and learn to live waiting for them to bloom."

"The duty of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

"In every concealment a sin sleeps."

"Achieve something every day that frightens you."

"The world is paid with sweetness of blood and intoxicated by violent liquors."

"My heart is a butterfly. It wants to flutter everywhere."

"I never wrote for the masses; I wrote for a single soul."