There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

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.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.