Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in abortion, but still there are a large number of children that come in this world without being expected.

For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings.

If you love your heart, this can be transmitted to other people. I mean you can help anybody that wants to do the same.

Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done.