We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The veil of confusion gently falls away,Like the dank mist on a dull autumn day.Revealing the path that lies there before me,To step forward or not, what will it be?

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you are lonely, remember it’s true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

It’s never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

Rule No.1 is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule No.2 is, it’s all small stuff.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

It’s always too early to quit.

True love stories never have endings.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Can you all just do me one favor? Don’t take life for granted, because tomorrow isn’t promised to any one of us.

Love is that to life, what wind is to a windmill.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

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?

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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.