Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

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.

No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.