Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body.This grief. How slowThe body is to realizeYou are never coming back.

I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain, That stymied me from living again.

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Love is easily killed.