Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a... - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."