it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

The rose goes on the front, big guy.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.