Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

We're Tuesday people.