To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

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

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

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

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.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Fear: the best way out is through.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.