Lord, keep my memory green.

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.

Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.