“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.”

“Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.”

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”

“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”