She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

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.

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!

He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.