Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
There's only one story, the story of your life.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.