Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."