Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

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.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.