When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

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.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.