Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.

—Thomas Carlyle

Life is a succession of lessons,
which must be lived to be understood.
All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.

—Helen Keller

No loss by flood and lightning,
no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature,
has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses
as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars
or sailed to an uncharted land
or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

We can do anything we want to do
if we stick to it long enough.

Although the world is very full of suffering,

it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

One should never count the years──one should instead count one’s interests.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

Let Us Have Faith, 1940

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Optimism, 1903