The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

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.

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

When we dream, anything is possible.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Applause abates diligence.