If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

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

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

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

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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

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