Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

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 often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

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

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