This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

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.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.