| The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going. |
| After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? |
| Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. |
| We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. |
| I refuse to be burdened by vague worries.If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. |
| What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering. |
| If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. |
| The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. |
| Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. |
| In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. |