Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.