There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.