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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

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

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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.

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