Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Contentment is a treasure that is never exhausted.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Forever is composed of nows.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

The children of Adam are limbs of one another, created from a single essence: when fate afflicts one limb with pain, the other limbs cannot remain at rest.

Speak such gentle words that they cool the heart: words that give joy to others and leave peace within yourself.

In the happiness of the people lies the ruler's happiness; in their welfare, his welfare. His own pleasure is not his good — the good of the people is his good.

As a day well spent brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.