If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.