Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

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.

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.