One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'