If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.