Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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

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

Great hopes make great men.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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