How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Your authenticity is a gift to the world. Embrace it fully and let it shine in everything you do.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Courage and content are great helps to a cheerful life.

Almost everything comes from nothing.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.