In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

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.

You are a royal child of God. There is absolutely nothing less about you. So stop letting people step on you like a mat.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.