You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were. - Sidney Poitier

But there is one key ingredient that my wife has helped me to recognize over the years, and that is the importance of articulating love for one another on a daily basis. The words I love you, spoken in acknowledgment in the morning upon rising and before going to bed, or when sitting down to dine, make the most beautiful music recognized by human ears.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

As a society we have grown to prefer the easy over the difficult, the quick over the slow, the cheap over the costly — and those choices are not often to the benefit of nature.