I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

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.

In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

For people have four shadows

Trans people deserve something vital they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

The Light of Christ illumines all.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

I can be a part of everything. Every movement.