"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."

"While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done."

"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."

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

"Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

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

"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."

"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."

"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges."

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

"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."

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

"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."

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

"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

"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."

"I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!"

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."

"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."

"It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more."

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

"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."

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

"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"

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

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"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."

"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."

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"Look the world straight in the eye."

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

"True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose"

"Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out."

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

"Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

"Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart."

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."

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

"For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine."

"The mind is as big as the universe."

"One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

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