Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

. . . 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.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.