An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

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.

For me, recovery and self-care are inextricably connected. My recovery from abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt required dumptruck loads of self-care.

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.