The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Smell is a fallen angel.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.