What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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 only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Don’t lose faith in the people.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.