"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."

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

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

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"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."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

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

"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."

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

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

"The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision."

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"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."

"The highest result of education is tolerance"

"People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"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."

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

"Literature is my Utopia"

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

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

"Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within"

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

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

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

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement"

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

"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."

"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

"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."

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

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

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

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

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

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

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

"My friends have made the story of my life."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

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

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do."

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

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

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

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

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

"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."

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