... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

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.

With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human.

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.