Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

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.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.