You are not defined by your past. You are defined by the choices you make in the present.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.

For it is in giving that we receive.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The world is divided into men with wit and no religion, and men with religion and no wit.