Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.

When you travel, be fully present in the place of voyage.

Curiosity improved the cat

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again