When one doors closes, another door opens.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.