The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.