We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.