Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

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.

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.