Why then we should drop into poetry.

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.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.