Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Choreography is writing on your feet.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!

One should read Borges more.

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.