What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.