The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.
We find things where we look for them.
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.
To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.
Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.
In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
