It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

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.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.