Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.