It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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.

God wants to make us understand and draw our attention to how important it is to learn to value one another

If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.