Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Life is a song to me.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.