Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

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.

Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

You may not know it yet, but Samantha Martin is a rock star, she'll tear your heart out one note at a time.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.