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 ….

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….

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….

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We ele….

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with ….

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles….

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging ….

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….

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music….

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing..

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and th….

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is somethin….

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….

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold..

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure..

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

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists..

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out..

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens..