We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

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.

The best dreams are the ones you are awake for.

Your smile is a magnet for goodwill and positivity. In unison with your attitude, people gravitate to happy people!

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

I'm a fan of action movies.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.