There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.
A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.
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.