There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

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

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.