It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal..

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit..

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love o….

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us a….

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring..

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn..

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous op….

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and di….

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me a….

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm….

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same..

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears..

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind..

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit ….

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I m….

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, t….

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness ….

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false stand….

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world..

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That livin….

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a m….