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

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

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.