The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.