"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."

"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

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

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."