Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

A great painting is a great painting.

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.

I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it.