Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.