It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.