If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.
