The hours that make us happy make us wise.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.