The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.