"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

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.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.