Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.