Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.

'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.