We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

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.

To Be Filled With The Knowledge Of God’s Glory Is To Be As The Water Cover The Sea

I am a living breathing word of GOD.

...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.