We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

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.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

The girl lives in a beautiful dollhouse made of stone', I wrote one time in my dairy when I was young, my handwriting shaky but sure. 'But beneath her shining plastic smile, there are only screams'.

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

I'm dating somebody. I am enjoying it very much, and having a really nice time at the moment. I'm very happy.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.