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

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 book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.