I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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.

Music is the soul of language.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.