It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

Curiosity, fed by feats of imagination, can only grow

Stop fighting. Everyone's a person too. And take care of the Earth, please.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.