You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

a body betrayeda heart destroyeda mind in confusionand yet a womanis capable of taking painand transforming it into triumph

The gentleness of your action touched my heart.

In our darkest moments we become stronger. In our happiest moments we become vulnerable.

Don't break your discipline, form it!

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.