In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

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.

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed.

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

We are optimists, until we are not.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.