If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
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