No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Well begun is half done.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

We can only learn to love by loving.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.

Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.