At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.

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.

You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.