One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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 can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

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