My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

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.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

Never permit anyone to interfere with your bond with happiness.

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Take everything to the next level and have fun doing it. No limits, no rules!

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.