Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.
Literature is my Utopia.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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.