Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

At the turning point of our emotions, there lay a magic milestone of hope, before us.

Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Food is the place where you begin.