Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions