“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

“There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.”

“Everything has been done before. Do it better!”

“You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.”

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion . . . that is a friend who cares.”

“Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all.”

“Patience is also a form of action.”

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

“Life tried to crush her but only succeeded in creating a diamond.”

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.”

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”