“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

“I will not be labeled as average.”

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”

“When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.”

“If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.”

“Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.”

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”

“How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?”

“What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the wrongs of the injured.”

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow. ”

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”

“I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.”

“An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”

“Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.”

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”

“I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”

“Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.”

“Excellence can be achieved if you . . . risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible. ”

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

“The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.”

“I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.”