Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
Your voice dries up if you don't use it.
Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.
Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.
it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.
I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.
You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna fancyme!" he mimics, mincing about the hammock. "You are such a rum cove, Jacky, for thinkin' such things when yer just about beat t' death! Fancy me? Fancy me? Jacky, no one's gonna fancy us, we're all gonna end up lookin' like Snag!" "Which is how a salty dog sailor's supposed to look," says Willy with a firm nod. "And you're halfway there, Jack-o!" crows Tink. Ah, the sweet comfort of friends.