Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

Charity begins at home.

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.