What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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.