So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.

if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...

This life is a process of learning.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.