Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘W-A-T-E-R’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
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.