Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes its exit, for it leaves behind it the sweet aroma of caring, a fragrance to linger the rest of your life.

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.