I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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.

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

All the clues are there in front of us, hidden under a veil, we cannot get the clue by searching for, we have to search for the veil instead.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

You alone are enough.

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.

Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses

You can't take life for granted.

People want the government to go back to the people.