I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

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.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Before Ben-Yehuda... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!

It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.