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.

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

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

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

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