We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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 do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.