We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

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.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.