Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Where the mind goes energy flows.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

Put your badass face on and follow me.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.