Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

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.

Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.