Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Almost everything comes from nothing.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

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

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

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.

Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.