What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

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.

It is not enough to be a man.

We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.

human eyes know to converse well in many a languages & human smiles know well to conceal many a things !!!

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.