Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

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.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.