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.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.