“And the tree was happy.”

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.

And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?

It’s all the same to the clam.

Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.

Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.

And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?

And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.

I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.

I can be somebody’s and still be my own.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I’m not extreme about what I eat.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.