“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”

“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”