If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die 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.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Anything you can do, I can do meta