Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.