We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.