It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.
Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
