Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

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.

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

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

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

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.