The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.
You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.
Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale – you’ve licked the smoking habit.
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
It’s like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.
Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.