It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.