You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — “always do what you are afraid to do”

Our distrust is very expensive.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?