There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.