"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

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.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

My dad's not a big talker.