“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My friends have made the story of my life.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Every lesson comes with a price. The faster we learn, the smaller the price.

Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.