“I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!”

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

It’s important to take each game as a new one because carrying the highs or the lows from previous games might disturb your mindset.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.