The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.