The highest result of education is tolerance.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.