“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

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

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter...

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

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

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.”

Alfred Nobel