What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

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.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance, " said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.