It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

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.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.