Let us sail in a boat that will take us across the oceans, Where we can find a new life, Full of happiness and understanding.

The thirst of the soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of the spirit is dearer than the security of the body But listen, my be-loved, I am standing today at the door of a new life.

Sunshine beyond the shadows Dawning beyond the night; Springtime beyond the winter Colour and warmth and light. Gladness beyond the sorrow laughter beyond the tears… Hope like a star at evening Glowing beyond the fears.

I’ve got a heap of troubles, and I’ve got to work them out. But I look around and see there’s troubles, all about. And when I see my troubles, I just look up and grin, and count all the troubles that I aim not in.

What is this power that elevates our spirits until we reach the mountain top, smiling and glorying?

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Her soul was a polished mirror reflecting all the loveliness of the fields, and her heart was like the wide valleys.

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin’s spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miser-able, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to ‘be alive’ is a grand thing.