Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.