I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

I was just teasing, " I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.

Faith in God is the only force there is.

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.

Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.