What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.
The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
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.
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.
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
The best things in life are unseen, that’s why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream.
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.
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.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.