It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.