I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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

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

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Great hopes make great men.

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.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

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