"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"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."
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
"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 no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
