Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

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.

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.