Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.