Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.