Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

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.

I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.