Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

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.

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.