It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

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.

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

Your smile is a magnet for goodwill and positivity. In unison with your attitude, people gravitate to happy people!

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

How great in number are the little minded men

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.