When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.