The smile is the shortest distance between two persons. Victor Borge
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. W. Somerset Maugham
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. English Proverb
The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought. Mongolian Proverb
There is a great distance between said and done. Puerto Rican Proverb