The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.