What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

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

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

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