“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn’t keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.

I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness and by money.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim at what you are willing to earn.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.