Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

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

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.