Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.