I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.