A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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 an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.
When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
True friends never become apart; maybe in distance but never in heart.
I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.
I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.
I hung about the dangerous frontier of “guess,” avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.
I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.