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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.