How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve 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.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.