Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.