When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.