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Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.
Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.
Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.
You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.
Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.
A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.
The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.