Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

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.

Grace calls us back to nonduality

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

If life was fair Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.