Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.