Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

Heaven is always there for us; but this life... this life is a gift to us.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.

I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.