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There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.
It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.
It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.
The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.
Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.
To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.