The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.
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.
Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
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 choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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