“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

I never saw a discontented tree.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.