If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose – or you can decide now to choose them.
At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.
God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
To accept reality is only to encourage it.
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon’s lyrics.
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
All is illusion, although as long as there’s an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.
If you don’t watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.