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

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.