A book is a gift you can open again and again.

and opened a Harry Potter book, read a few pages and said: 'I could have done that. I could have done that while doing all the other things that I do. Why didn't I?'

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.