Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

After all, God made man and then said: I can do better than that -- and made woman.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -- what make you go beyond the norm.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Every individual is capable of extraordinary things, but no one can accomplish anything by themselves.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.