Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

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.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.