The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

When kindness is here, hatred disappears. When hatred is here, kindness can never enter.

I Know, But No One Know, No One Know So I Don't Know

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.