Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

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.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

Welcome to 'Eartholpoly'

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.