A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

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.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.