We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.