My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.