Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today