A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

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.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

We learn to walk when we’re babies and never forget unless we’re drunk.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.