If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

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

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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.

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

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

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

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

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