Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

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.

In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.

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