The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

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.

Knowledge is acquired by diligent study.

Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.