Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

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