So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

To get Congress to do anything.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.