Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.