Love Expands

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often, but I’m well preserved.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful – and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father’s time, a politician’s home was still his castle.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.