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.

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

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.