Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

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

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.