Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

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

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

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

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

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.