The simple and most complex answer is love.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.