Be proud, you survived the days you thought you couldn’t.

“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”

Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows.

“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” 

“If it’s important you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.”