The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.