Heaven suits the back to the burden.

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.

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.