Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.