Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me….

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

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

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.