I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

The door snicked shut.

Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.