Hey, pretty book, why don’t you lie in my lap awhile?

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.