Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Home is the nicest word there is.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn't dare visit.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.