"I am sure that the true way to make a life happy is to make it useful."

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

"I will not shut myself up in a dark room to brood over my limitations. I will use the gifts I have, and I will be grateful."

"The chief delight of the senses is in the perception of beauty."

"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of people who are overcoming their suffering."