To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

I have found life so beautiful.

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

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.