Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.

Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.