Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

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

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.