It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

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

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

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

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.