The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.