I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.