Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Great hopes make great men.

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

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

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 truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.