Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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.

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

One can say everything best over a meal.

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.