“Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves… Some hold it in their hearts.”

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you’ll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

How I wish I could hold you a little longer, and more. And forever.

Take hold of this life, you only get one.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.