You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.