Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

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.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

No need for words, it's all been said.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.