Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

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

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

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.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.