"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

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.

I miei silenzi erano scudi contro la realtà dietro i quali nascondevano la verità.

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.