Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed, " Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

I know love is real because I feel it.

If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That’s priceless. Those are real friends.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.