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.

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

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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

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

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.