Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

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.

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.