Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Every modern war has had its root in exploitation
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
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