What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The read more

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state read more

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.