It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

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.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.