Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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.
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.