The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
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.
I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.
One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
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.
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
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 rain.
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.
