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

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.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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 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.

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

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