Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

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.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.