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

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

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

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'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.

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

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

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

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.