With any child entering adolescence one hunts for signs of health is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything.

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.

Every gift which is given even though is be small is in reality great if it is given with affection.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

The smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.