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.

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.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

This moment is always the best one in which to express your care for others.

What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains