You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.