Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha..

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually ….

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission..

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction..

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint..

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans..

It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down..

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's The….

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine..

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure..

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend..

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling..

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan..

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

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated..

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence..

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

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis..

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background..

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust..

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking..