Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.