Be the change you want to see in the world.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Where there is fear, there is no religion.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. Man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of environment.