Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

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

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

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.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

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

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