"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"One faces the future with one's past."