Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

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.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.

How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?