by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

It may not be important what you say, but it is very important who you are.

Shame is a destroyer of self-worth.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The whole world is out of time!

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.