Young Heart

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.

Precise Moment of Friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Humans

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Miserable

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Too Bad

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

A Part of You

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Friends

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Just Do It

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Merry-Go-Round

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

You Are Unique

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Life is Good

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Friendship Never End

The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end.

Search Within

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Generations

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Just Be You

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Never the Same

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Forgiving Parents

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior

Beginning All Over Again

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Purpose in Life

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Walk Beside Me

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.