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.

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

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.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

I'd like to thank everyone I've met in my life.

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

As secretary of state Hillary Clinton was rolled by everybody.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.