It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.

Life delights in life.

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."