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.

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

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

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

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.