People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
