The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.