Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

If you don´t have enough money, you might have too many excuses.

Don't need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

Those who love dogs, know something about God.

Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.

Time gives good advice.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.