“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than to outrun exposer. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“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 a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears”

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”