The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

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.

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath.

Solyndra is a great investment in our future

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.