Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.

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