You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you’ll find out that you’re a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that’s happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. Its easy to take an extreme position.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.

Never give up on anybody.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.