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

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.

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 am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

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