There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

April is a promise of what's to come.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

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.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.