A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.