The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

We are here to make another world.