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

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

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

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.