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

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.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.