When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

Life becomes boring when things fall in place the way you intended!

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

I wonder how much of the rest of his clothes I could convince him to take off, then wonder where that thought came from. Well I guess I know.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

You really have to love what you are doing, so you don't give up.

two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.