No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

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 want to kiss you again, Tess.”“Why?”He chuckled, low under his breath. “Why? Because you’re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.

Every minute is eternity.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.