There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.