If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!