A SMILE

A smile costs nothing but gives much. 

It enriches those who receive without

making poorer those who give. 

It takes but a moment, but the memory

 of it sometimes lasts forever. 

None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get

along without it and none is so poor

that he cannot be made rich by it. 

Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed,

or stolen, for it is something that is of no value

to anyone until it is given away. 

Some people are too tired

to give you a smile. 

Give them one of yours,

as none needs a smile so much

as he who has no more to give. 

~ Raoul Follereau