In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

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.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

When your strength goes down, remember God is up to uplift you!

How many lovers did a person need, anyway?

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

We're all just walking each other home.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.