Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

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.

A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.