A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

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.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?