Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.
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.
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.
The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.
There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.
Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.
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