It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.
We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.
Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
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