The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

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.

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Love is acceptance without judgment.

Teams gather around change.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!