Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.