Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

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.

Break away from every yoke of bondage in Jesus Name.

We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.