True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.