“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”

“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”

“[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.”

“Don’t make a big deal out of a small deal - and you know everything is s small deal. Nothing is a big deal.”

“One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.”

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”