Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.