People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!