“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.

Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.