Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

If you love somebody, tell them.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

Drinking all day Big chiefing at night I keep my eyes red and tight So that my teeth can look white

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

It's deep passion for my wife that really makes me vulnerable to her.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child