Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

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.

Life is an enduring endeavour.

Love is the best wisdom.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.