The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.