Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

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.

Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Though people see me in a good light all the time, I turn off my phone and take time to have a good conversation with myself while enjoying nature alone when I'm having a hard time.