“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“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.”