Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.

It's only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.