We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.