and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

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.

This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder.

It is very wise to spend some quiet time alone getting to know your true positive self better, far before you start to surround yourself with people.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

People do business with people who make them feel special.

I write constantly about everything.