"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."

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

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."

"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."

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

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

"So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied."

"My friends have made the story of my life."

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

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

"Your success and happiness lie in you."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light."

"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering."

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."

"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."

"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."

"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."

"While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done."

"Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people."

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained."

"Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."

"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."

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

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."

"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges."

"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

"When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears"

"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."

"I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!"

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

"Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart."

"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."

"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."

"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."

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure."

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

"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"