Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

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.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I'm afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future.

You're my rain, Eric. You've been keeping me safe before I even knew you.

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?