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The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

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

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

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

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

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

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

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

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.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

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

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?