... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

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.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

Some kisses are worth living for

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.