You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
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