Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

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.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I am really, really tired.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.