No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.