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

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.