“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

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.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Your success and happiness lie in you.