When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

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