I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

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.

To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.