Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.