Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

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.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.