True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A man will have success in the place where he diligently works

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, " said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.