Novelties please less than they impress.

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.

Love is an art and this love lacks artists.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

I'm a feminist at heart, and I'm totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.