"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"It’s really a wonder that I have not dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
"I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you."
"No one has ever become poor by giving."
"I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."