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The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.
Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.
Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.
Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.
The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.