There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

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.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.