No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

we all need someone to talk to, be with and love

When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.