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.
In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
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.
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.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
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.
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
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.
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.
The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.