“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”

“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”

“How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.”

“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.”

“It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.”

“Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”