Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

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.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.