Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.