There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.