One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.
What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.
As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.
If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.
What good is love if you never ask anything of it?
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.
So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.