I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

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

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

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.