“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”– Friedrich Schiller Related Quotes “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”– Democritus “Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”– Helen Keller “It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”– Joseph Wood Krutch