1. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
2. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
3. Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
4. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
5. You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
