"I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden."

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

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

"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 …"

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."