What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Exuberance is beauty.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

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

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.