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.
In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
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.
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.
The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
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.
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.
A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
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.