Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

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

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.