When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.