We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Home is the nicest word there is.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.