I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.

There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.