Sheep and goats and cowsgather 'round a manger bedto awe at a babe.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

May your life be a fountain of love and kindness to fill the world with joy.

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.