What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

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

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.