Your success & happiness lies in you.

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.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

I own motorized bar stools.

Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.