Adversity always hides a gift.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.