Quotes

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again.

Unexpected good has filled the chinks of frustration in my life.

The misfortunes of the disinherited of the world rouse in me not only compassion but a fierce indignation.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.

Teach them to think and read and talk... and they will write because they cannot help it.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it.

Simplification of life is one of the most difficult of steps to take.

Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor—I will need them all.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.