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

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

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

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

"Literature is my Utopia"

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

"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."

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

"The highest result of education is tolerance"

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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 am a grafter."