the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.