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

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

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

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.

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.