Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.

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.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.