Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

I am not this hair and skin, I am the SOUL that lives within.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.