Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

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