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?'

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.