No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

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.

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.

I never think of my age, never. I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.