Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

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.

We have been chosen and called to be like Jesus Christ.

Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.

The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.