There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.