The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

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.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

Money is the best deodorant.

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.