Your success and happiness lie in you.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.