If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.