“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears”

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

There is no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that I can’t learn how to fly.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.