Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

Sunday is a day of rest.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.