Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.
Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.
There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
