"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

"The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal."

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men."

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."

"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 power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force, this is my religion of optimism."

"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

"More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free."

"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

"If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory of them. With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution of happiness, strength, and understanding to my being remains to sustain me in an altered world."

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering."

"To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

"I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle."

"I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating."

"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 length."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

"God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work."

"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 along His silent way."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"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 succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

"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 bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."

"Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."

"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation."

"The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction."

"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."