A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

Embrace your responsibility to dream big.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.