To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

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.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

Many a false step was made by standing still.