Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.