When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
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.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.
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