Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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.

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.

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