I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

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.

The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained

Opera?" Trelon asked tiredly, "What the hell is opera?" "I'll tell you what it is! It is the screeching of the death birds, that 's what it is!Capturing Cara (Dragon Lords of Valdier, #2)

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

This state of independence shall be!

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.