I love the way knitting brings people together.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

The best way to get even is to forget.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

There is more in you than you think.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.