“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.”

“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.”

“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”

“Another decent possibility my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a giftThey assumeand this is the orthodox assumption of the industrial economythat the only help worth giving is not given a...”

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”