A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over..

I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance..

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words..

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby..

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors..

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory..

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles..

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull..

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now..

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor..

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate w….

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing..

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent..

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternit….

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic..

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to retur….

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it..

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be..

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie..

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed..