The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

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.

it tooklosing himto finally findmyself.It tooklosing hima second timeto be sureof myself.thatwas myfirst actofself-love.

You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to get it!

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.