Your success and happiness lie in you.

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.

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.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

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.

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

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.