When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

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

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.