Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

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.

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.

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.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.

To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.