There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

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?'

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.