History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

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.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

In order to fall asleep we must first close our eyes and pretend to be sleeping. Can the same be true for happiness and success?

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

Seeing is not as simple as looking.

Never connect yourself with the other person's pain. Just hear their need. Leave yourself out of the other person's feelings and needs.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.