Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.