All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.