You can either become hardened by all that happens to you or softened.  Choose the second.  Every time.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness.  If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday

Become major, Paul.  Live like a hero.  That’s what the classics teach us.  Be a main character.  Otherwise what is life for?

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time.  And that’s one definition of a lady

...she had not been spoiled but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events...