There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?