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

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

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

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

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.

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

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

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

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