It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.