If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

For every "Drive Safely" sign, shouldn't there be a "Resume Normal Driving" sign?

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.