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- Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed…
- The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
- There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the…
- Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg…
- There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the…
- You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's…
- It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
- Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a…
- Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
- The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.
- Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
- A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
- As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
- Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
- Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.
- People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.
- In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must…
- The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.
- Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.
- It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.
- It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.
- If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.
- A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.
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