Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

Believing in unknown future, destiny, predestination without working hard to see it through is a mere fantasy

The power of imagination is a miracle.

If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.