Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

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 want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

Keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.