The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

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 was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.