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

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

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.