Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

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

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

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Never act until you have clearly answered the question: What happens if I do nothing?

Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.