Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.