Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The inferiority of women is man-made.
Our beloved ones have not ‘gone to a far country.’ It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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.