By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

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.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.