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.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

I get a standing ovation just standing

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

I've always been a workhorse.

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?