Charles Dickens

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

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

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?