The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.