“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.”

I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.

Literature is my Utopia

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

I haven’t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven’t been in jail, and I don’t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That’s something of an accomplishment these days.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.