Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less