"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

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.

The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy. Children of Ankh series

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.