Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
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.
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.
Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.
As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.
Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?
In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.
I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you’ve been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.