"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

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.

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

I like my women like I like my coffee . . . I don’t like coffee.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.