Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.