Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.

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.

Profit is vitamin of the body and loss is vitamin of the Soul [The Self]. So where is a loss anywhere?

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

I am enjoying my life because things aren't going the way I planned.

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.