We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.