we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.