The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

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.

Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules and governs.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.