If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

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.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.