Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

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.

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There's always a faster gun.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.