Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

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.

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.