Things must be felt with the heart.

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.

The time is always right, just act.

In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome of those feelings.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

I should have tried getting blown up months ago if that's what it takes to get you to be nice to me.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

All colours will agree in the dark.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.