Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

Where is the yesterday that worried us so.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.