To speak of “mere words” is much like speaking of “mere dynamite”

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than...

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that’s why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

Success won’t just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway.

The first duty of love is to listen.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The proof that the human being is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of...

You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother’s Day

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it’s a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

There’s always room for improvement, it’s the biggest room in the house.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own...

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Only a life in the service of others is worth living.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Perserverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves glorious success.

One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us ‘old friend in the years to come.”

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes –seize it, don’t...

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else for us to...

Get as much experience as you can, so that your’re ready when luck works. That’s luck.