"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

"Wealth flows from energy and ideas."

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."

"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter."

"It is a steadfast truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul."

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."