The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.
We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.
Your success and happiness lie in you.
What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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