One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.
One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.
If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.
As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
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