The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

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.

To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries.

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.

As an instinct told her which way to turn, her wisdom told her that it will be a long path to manifest.

No one answer is ever the answer.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.