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

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

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

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.