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. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows

Things must be felt with the heart.

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.