Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.