Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely.