While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.