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.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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

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

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.

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