If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.