Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.