“To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”

“More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.”

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

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

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

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

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.”

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”

“The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.”

“The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”

“I am younger today than I was at twenty-five. Of course the furrows of suffering have been dug deeper, but so have those of understanding sympathy and inner happiness. Whatever age may do to my earthly shell, I shall never grow cynical or indifferent—and one cannot measure the reserve power locked up in that assurance.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”

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

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

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

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

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

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”

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

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

“I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”

“When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within–a spirit of growth and beauty.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

“So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”