The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

"Life is a play with Dialog. May the words that come from us be those of Thanksgiving and Gratitude!" ~Tom Baker

A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.