There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

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.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.

If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.