- What day is it?- It's today, - squeaked Piglet.- My favorite day, - said Pooh. ("Winnie-the Pooh", A.A. Milne)

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Think, think, think.

Pooh, " said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know, " said Pooh humbly.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time

Like money used wisely, awareness comes & we let it go. Like life, it arises infinitely, to tease & to soothe, to flow through us.

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.