The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.
It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
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