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.

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 before us.

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.