Competence is a great creator of confidence.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.