Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

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.

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes but above me and within me there was a spirit stronger than them all.

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.