An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.