It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.