What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

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?'

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.