Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.