I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He’d better create eternity.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter’s eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families – that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
Why try to be someone you’re not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
I don’t think most people want to be unhappy. It’s just something they’ve gotten good at.
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone’s feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.