I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
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.
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.
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.
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.
To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
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.
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
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.
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.
You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.
One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.
Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.
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