The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

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