There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

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.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

It's a good idea not to major in minor things.