If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Cheer up, be of good courage.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.