“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.”

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.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.