"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

"Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present."

"Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow."

"Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present."

"Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."