I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

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.

Waiting for things to happen is like daydreaming. To break out of that cycle, you must be willing to take the first small step.

Live like the season is ending and the birds are leaving, fight against the winds of the fall like the last leave.

In all your getting, get understand. Proverbs paraphrased

By indignities men come to dignities.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.