The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.
When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.
It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.
We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.
As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
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