Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.