Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

Forget the past.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.