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.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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.
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
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