Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

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.

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty, " said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".

Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

People know what I'm doing.

I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.