Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.