Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.
Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.
I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.
There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.
Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
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