“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.”

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.

Living, loving & learning.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

There is nothing that is an accident.

When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.