So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

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.

With the right mindset, you can turn a painful downfall into a setup for a great success story.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.