Oscar Hammerstein II

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.