“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”

“All we have is now. And our promise to make it better.”

“Strength is not a matter of brute force or power over others. It is about having the courage not to use this.”

“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you’ve got. They’re the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you’ve really got to defend yourself with.”

“I believe in going with the flow. I don’t believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else’s. Everyone has their own river, and you don’t need to swim,float,sail on their’s, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don’t believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.”

“A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.”

“Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.”