The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

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.

Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.

I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.