Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.