There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.
The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
