Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'