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My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
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 always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"
I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.