Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

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 we connect to Creator, our sacred character develops.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.