Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.