A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Being 'Tech Savvy' allows me to tie my own shoe laces, ride a tricycle, draw stick figures, play hop scotch and much, much more.Otherwise I'd be a 'Techno Illiterate'.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?

We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]