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

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

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

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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.