When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

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

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.