I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

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.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.