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.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

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

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

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