I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just always make sure I have a great haircut.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.