There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.