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

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

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

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

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

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