It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Existenz only becomes clear through reason

Art is unpredictable.

life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.

I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.