He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

There is no education like adversity.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort...

if I had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh I'd have a garden to walk in forever.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

If you're going through hell, keep going

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

What are the things One should not touch with one’s feet

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character

Positive anything is better than negative thinking

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

What are the things One should not go (cross) between

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was