Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.