Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.