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

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.

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.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.