My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

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.

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

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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.

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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 seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

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.

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

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.

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.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.