. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'