There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

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.

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.