Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, I can feel, I can think. So, I can understand that we are surrounded by a great wonder.

You have proved it is a very moral habit.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.