A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

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.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

I don't understand people's obsessions.

Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.