Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

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.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.