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.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.