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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

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

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now.

I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!