I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.