If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

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.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.