Children of parents reflect light 

well before admitting to have their own light.

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

"Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard."

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.

One can never consent to creep when
one feels an impulse to soar.

Ownership is a key ingredient of finding fulfillment in our work and in our lives. When we don't create an attitude of ownership, we leave ourselves open to the whims and ways of circumstance and the choices of others. Ownership is going beyond pulling your own weight, and beyond doing your share. It resides in a place of doing what needs to be done. Regardless."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say book, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand is nature. Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind, and fires the imagination; health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul."

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."