The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasp….

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape hi….

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward t….

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delighted….

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who….

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens..

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little….

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud..

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more….

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted len….

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings..

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will….

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God..

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens..

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this p….

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choos….

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress..

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the banke….

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in ….

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them..