Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.