Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

The world was hers for the reading.

Silence gives notice to the music of the senses that would otherwise not be heard.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.