The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.