Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Every modern war has had its root in exploitation
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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