Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

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.

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

There's no doctor like meat and drink.