There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.