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Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

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

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


The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.


The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, – the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

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.

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.

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

True happiness . . . is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

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

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

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