The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.