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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

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

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

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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.