I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.