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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.
For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?
It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.
Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.
Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.
Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.
It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.