What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

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.

We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

Never shake hands with a scorpion.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.