I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.