My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.