A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

The best way to help yourself is to help someone else.

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.

Happiness is not always a reality many times it is in our memory.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.