All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
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.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
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.
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.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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.