I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.