Death is a mighty, universal truth.

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.

Take the chance! You can!

Your life could only be lived by you.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!

Each man has his own batch of poems.