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.

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.

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

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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