“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“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.”
“The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
“Many persons have a wrong of idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“No doubt the reason is that 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.”
“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.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.”
“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
“Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.”
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.”
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”