What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.
There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.
Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
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