My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

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.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

You do not have the right to waste time

Do not envy the rich

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.