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

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.