People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

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