No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.