The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

Why? It's an excellent question. But an even better one is... Why not?

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.